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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. Spiritual support is provided by the Hospice chaplain and social workers are also available. Still another type of care referred to as respite care is available to relieve caregiver breakdown. What Does Hospice Care Include?

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. Another little point here, when someone who's dying becomes less social, don't take that personal. You know, some caregivers and family members take this withdrawal personally.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.